In Brazil, located in the middle of the rainforest, the world is discussing solutions to the climate crisis. How’s it going and what’s wrong? In star-Blog stay up to date.
This year’s climate summit was particularly symbolic: from November 10 to 21, host Brazil gathered delegates from nearly 200 countries in the middle of the Amazon. Tropical rainforests are considered one of the most vulnerable ecosystems and are therefore a reflection of everything that is wrong with current global climate policy.
Since the Paris Agreement, no climate conference has resulted in further breakthroughs. The 1.5 degree target at that time was considered cunning and unattainable. Meanwhile, emissions continue to increase, triggering environmental disasters such as droughts, heat waves, heavy rains and floods.
Politically, a tipping point appears to have been reached: more and more countries are reducing their climate policy ambitions or abandoning international climate diplomacy. The most prominent example is America. Hardly any other region of the world reflects this misery as clearly as the Amazon rainforest, which is approaching a tipping point.
Here, in the great city of Belem, solutions to the climate crisis should be developed.
